Cronut (n); 1. A hybrid of a donut and croissant, originated at New York's Dominique Ansel bakery, currently in such high demand that Craigslist is bursting with bidders willing to pay $60 for one. From the Greek root "cronuticus," over which Julius Caesar was murdered by Brutus in 44 BC. Below, more food-porny riffs on doughnuts.

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There's Washington D.C.'s doissant, currently the pride and joy of our nation's capital. Eat it when: you're running across the pool of the Washington Memorial like Robin Wright in that scene from Forrest Gump.

I don't even know what I'm looking at, but I like it. Eat it when: You've just been dumped, your parents are getting a divorce, a comet crashed through the roof of your house. AND you forgot to DVR Mad Men.